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+/* global describe, it */
+
+import { expect } from 'chai'
+import outdent from 'outdent'
+
+import XMLParser from '../../src/MetamapsXMLParser'
+
+describe('Metamaps.XMLParser.js', function() {
+  describe('parseSchema', function() {
+    it('View:Projection nodes', function() {
+      const xml = outdent`
+      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+      <View:ColumnView name="ZPalletToBoxes">
+        <viewNode xsi:type="View:Projection" name="NTREE_DATA">
+          <element name="MANDT">
+            <inlineType primitiveType="NVARCHAR" length="3" precision="3" scale="0"/>
+          </element>
+        </viewNode>
+      </View:ColumnView>`
+      { topics, synapses } = XMLParser.parseSchema(xml)
+      expect(topics[0].name).to.equal("MANDT")
+      expect(topics[0].metacode).to.equal("Wildcard")
+
+      expect(synapses.length).to.equal(0)
+    })
+
+    it('lays nodes out correctly', function() {
+      const xml = outdent`
+      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+      <View:ColumnView name="ZPalletToBoxes">
+        <viewNode xsi:type="View:Projection" name="NTREE_DATA">
+          <element name="MANDT">
+            <inlineType primitiveType="NVARCHAR" length="3" precision="3" scale="0"/>
+          </element>
+          <layout xCoordinate="176" yCoordinate="569" width="-1" height="-1" expanded="true"/>
+        </viewNode>
+      </View:ColumnView>`
+      { topics, synapses } = XMLParser.parseSchema(xml)
+      expect(topics[0].x).to.equal(176)
+      expect(topics[0].y).to.equal(569)
+    })
+  })
+})